Anxious about a looming TikTok ban, some American creators look to other platforms

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Dec. 26, 2024, 5:00 AM EST


The clock is ticking for American creators who say they are both nervous and frustrated as they prepare for a potential nationwide ban of TikTok next month.

A bipartisan bill President Joe Biden signed this year requires TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the platform to an American company or face a ban — which is set to take effect Jan. 19, the day before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The Supreme Court said it will take up TikTok’s appeal on Jan. 10.

“So many people have found connection, communities, and people’s livelihoods now have been built from TikTok,” said Jenn Ficarra, a Los Angeles-based writer who used TikTok to help launch a baby-name consulting business as a side hustle. “I’m just really dismayed and annoyed and angry that something that is instrumental to so many people’s livelihoods is being stripped away.”

Lawmakers who pushed for a ban argue that TikTok’s Chinese owner poses a national security threat to the United States. But for many American creators who’ve come to rely on it as their main source of income, losing it would mean scrambling for new ways to sustain their careers and rebuild their personal brands.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tiktok-ban-american-creators-prepare-rcna185158

[Omnipresent]

1. I'm sure everyone will find a new app to use.

It’s not like it’s a brick and mortar business.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Replacements are being devised. From the same article:

There has also been early buzz around possible replacements for TikTok. Some creators and users have mentioned several emerging apps — such as Clapper and a yet-to-launch app called Neptune — as options.

Though Neptune has been in the works only since May, its CEO, Ashley Darling, said the sudden “mass panic and hysteria” over TikTok’s looming ban injected so much user interest in the new app that her team is pushing up its release date to next spring, with beta testing to begin as early as January.

[Omnipresent]

3. There's no need to beat a dead horse...

Just use the bones to make a tasty new product like jello!

[BumRushDaShow]

4. The irony

is that a lot of that stuff on there has been and still is being done on YouTube.

Am guessing TikTok must have a better financial arrangement for content creators than what YouTube has.

[LeftInTX]

5. It does. It's much easier to earn on TikTok.

[JoseBalow]

6. It's a shame, I enjoy my carefully curated feed

I'm afraid that many American friends and creator accounts that I follow won't find a way around the ban.

I would miss them.

[William769]

7. It warms my heart to see tiktok go.

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2024/12/16/trump-look-at-looming-tiktok-ban/77030479007/

[Blue_Tires]

8. Tiktok is cancer

[Crowman2009]

9. But where am I going to learn bad nutritional advice like tanning my ass crack?

Not kidding, it was a trend on TikTok formally known as perineum tanning:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-are-people-sunning-their-arseholes-on-tiktok/

[mdbl]

10. The Supreme Court of the US is hearing a suit by a foreign corp about laws made by Congress?

WTF! I guess money trumps sovereignty.